http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/07/20/a-quick-look-at-my-blogs-web-statistics en-us 40 Quality rants on programming theory and stuff geeks like <p>Every so often I check the stats for my blog to see which articles are popular and learn how people are finding the blog. I just checked the stats today, and, if you are curious, here is a summary of what I found.</p> <h3>Most popular articles</h3> <p>As of today, for the month of July 2006, the ten most-visited articles on my blog are as follows:</p> <ul> <li>(235) <a href="http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2005/05/08/taking-the-unsafe-gets-out-of-rails">Taking the unsafe GETs out of Rails</a></li> <li>(229) <a href="http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2005/11/15/verizon-fios-fiber-optic-internet-service-a-first-look">Verizon FiOS fiber-optic Internet service: a first look</a></li> <li>(149) <a href="http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/01/30/good-stuff-aldo-coffee-company">Good stuff: Aldo Coffee Company</a></li> <li>(127) <a href="http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2004/03/13/concurrent-port-scanner-in-haskell">Concurrent port scanner in Haskell</a></li> <li>(121) <a href="http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/01/17/mining-gold-from-the-internet-movie-database-part-1">Mining gold from the Internet Movie Database, part 1: decoding user ratings</a></li> <li>(118) <a href="http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/06/23/new-server-arrives-my-adventure-in-dell-customer-support-hell">New server arrives: my adventure in Dell customer-support Hell</a></li> <li>(110) <a href="http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2004/08/27/open-source-statistics-r-and-ess">Open-source statistics: R and <span class="caps">ESS</span></a></li> <li>(103) <a href="http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2005/08/27/power-parsing-with-haskell-and-parsec">Power parsing with Haskell and Parsec</a></li> <li>(093) <a href="http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/06/27/dell-support-follow-up-survey">Dell-support follow-up survey</a></li> <li>(089) <a href="http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/05/03/unofficial-answers-to-faqs-about-giant-eagles-fuelperks-gas-discount">Unofficial answers to FAQs about Giant Eagle&#8217;s &#8216;fuelperks&#8217; gas discount</a></li> </ul> <p>The numbers in parentheses are the articles&#8217; relative-popularity scores. Each score tells you how popular an article was when compared to the blog&#8217;s root page, which has a reference score of 1000.</p> <h3>Most popular search keywords</h3> <p>The ten most popular search keywords that led people to my blog are as follows:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=rails">rails</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=fios">fios</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=verizon">verizon</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=haskell">haskell</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=ruby">ruby</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=link_to">link_to</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=statistics">statistics</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=button_to">button_to</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=source">source</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=r">r</a></li> </ul> <p>Many of these were combined with other terms as part of a search phrase. For example, &#8220;rails&#8221; was often used in the following phrases:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=rails+link_to">rails link_to</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=rails+button_to">rails button_to</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=rails+button+helper">rails button helper</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=rails+link_to+html_options">rails link_to html_options</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=rails+form+confirm">rails form confirm</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=confirm+form+post+rails">confirm form post rails</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=user+agent+in+rails">user agent in rails</a></li> </ul> <h3>Spam</h3> <p>Over the last 30 days, there have been on average 244 attempts per day to post spam to my blog (stdev = 96).</p> <h3>That&#8217;s it</h3> <p>And that&#8217;s the stats!</p> Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:43:00 -0400 urn:uuid:7855edfeb5992359901c4e4b873e08e5 Tom Moertel http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/07/20/a-quick-look-at-my-blogs-web-statistics site news statistics http://blog.moertel.com/articles/trackback/78